The Department of Local Government and Housing would like to reassure the rightful beneficiaries of Eden Park extension five that they will take occupation of their houses soon.
This announcement comes after the department finally secured a safe and habitable land for those who have illegally occupied the Eden Park extension five houses. But in the same breath, Local Government and Housing MEC Kgaogelo Lekgoro said this move of relocating the illegal occupants should not be interpreted as encouraging anarchy and lawlessness.
“It doesn’t mean that because we are abiding with the law it means that we have to bend backwards to accommodate those that are set to break the law. We need to put on record that those that have illegally occupied these houses have broken the law, because as we speak the rightful owners are desperate to occupy their houses,” Lekgoro explains.
“We can’t have a situation where people take the law into their hands and ignore procedure. Those people who took occupation of those houses never bothered to follow the correct procedure to apply for a house. Right now the rightful owners are grossly inconvenienced. It can’t be right.”
The MEC will on Thursday break the news at an Imbizo to be held at the Eden Park sports ground at 16h00.
For more information contact:
Fred Mokoko
Cell: 082 447 8407
Tel: 011 355 4013
Issued by: Department of Local Government and Housing, Gauteng Provincial Government
10 November 2009
